Website visitor Dann Shively flew over
Vaca Valley Raceway near Vacaville, California recently. He took
the aerial photos below. Dann also sent the track diagram scanned
from a 1964 program.

It never occurred to your webmaster
that this track still existed. He'd long assumed that it was bulldozed
and subdivided, like Riverside,
into tract houses or a mall. Dann said that the track was "pretty
much deteriorated". I wonder how bad it it could be? Asphalt
is relatively cheap. Consider the cost of creating an entirely new
race venue somewhere else compared to acquiring and repaving this historic
course.

Your webmaster took photos at the August
19-20, 1961 Vaca Valley Raceway event. Surprisingly, considering
the area and season, it rained on Saturday. He remembers Sunday was
a more typical summer day -- HOT! Here are links to pages on
the website with photos taken that weekend.

Jerry
Grant: Top photo shows Grant on the main straight near Start/Finish.
The spectator area along the straight was on a raised bank that provided
a view of 100% of the course. There were grandstands here, too.
The second photo shows Grant sliding off the course at Turn 2 during Saturday's
wet event.

Ed
Leslie: These photos show Leslie on the starting grid at
Start/Finish.

Dave
MacDonald: This photo was taken farther along the main straight
near Turn 1.